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List Price: $14.98 Features • Black & White • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 19 November, 1936 DVD Release : 28 November, 2000 |
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The Garden of Allah description Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer play a pair of lost souls who meet in the desert. She is the sheltered Domini, looking for spiritual enlightenment in the Sahara. He is Boris, a young monk who has abandoned the monastery, wanting to experience the outside world. Together, they fall in love and try to come to terms with their mutual guilt while having a passionate affair. C. Aubrey Smith and Basil Rathbone serve as guides for Domini. John Carradine cameos as a bizarre fortune teller. Unfortunately, even an excellent cast can't save this sandy soaper from itself. Although the Technicolor cinematography is gorgeous, and Dietrich sports a new and more stunning gown for every desert occasion, viewers will find no oasis to quench their thirst. Basically, this is a very early version of Hollywood's "sex and sand" films, so popular in the 1950s--lush, unusual, and ultimately silly. --Mark Savary |
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| To be sure, this 1936 David O. Selznick production has a very tame storyline, bland even, by today's standards. But what it does have is Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone and a steller cast, with beautiful music and some of the best Technicolor ever produced. It's well worth having as an example of Hollywood color filmmaking at its best. | |
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